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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

WiFi & VPN... it makes sense now

As I posted a few days ago, I noticed that wifi.google.com and vpn.google.com were live and functioning domains @ Google... it now looks like google is providing a new service called Google Secure Access Client.

This client is used for Secure WiFi access via Google VPN (as of right now it has only been tested in San Francisco on "certain wifi networks"). Basically what happens is the following:

1) anything your computer would normally send over the internet becomes encrypted using the Secure Access Client.2)Once encrypted, it is then sent to Google for processing.3)Google decrypts your data4)Google sends your data to it's final destination5)a response is sent back to google.6)Google takes that information and encrypts it7)Google sends you the encrypted information8)Google Secure Client decrypts the information9)everything seems to have worked as it did before you had Secure Access Client installed.